Recent comparison of robotic frameworks

We are developing our road map for R&D. One of the questions we have is whether or not we should invest in R&D in ROS. Therefore, I was searching for comparisons between robotics frameworks. The most recent article I found was: Robotics Middleware: A Comprehensive Literature Survey and Attribute-Based Bibliography from 2012. The article gives an overview. However, a lot of the frameworks mentioned in the article are not actively maintained anymore.

Is there a more recent (from 2015 or later) comparison between robotics frameworks? If not, are there competing frameworks that we should consider?

Asked by Wilco Bonestroo on 2017-06-21 10:01:20 UTC

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~~I appreciate you asking this question here, but seeing as this is *ROS* Answers, a site mostly catering towards beginners with ROS, I'm not expecting many answers.~~

Actually, would be nice to see some answers. ROS is not a panacea, so perhaps board members have investigated others.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-06-21 10:31:17 UTC

I personally don't know of anything even close to ROS in terms of size of the user-base and third-party hardware support. However, one that we came across was called Fawkes. We use CLIPS which is supported by Fawkes. But we have never actually tried Fawkes itself.

Asked by ufr3c_tjc on 2017-06-21 20:39:36 UTC